http://math-blog.com/2010/07/23/in-depth-book-review-the-computer-as-crucible/ Mathematics is wonderful! Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:42:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://math-blog.com/2010/07/23/in-depth-book-review-the-computer-as-crucible/comment-page-1/#comment-12965 tyomero Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:35:47 +0000 http://math-blog.com/?p=422#comment-12965 This reminded me of the guy who defined the Omega number (http://plus.maths.org/issue37/features/omega/index.html). He also proposes to take an experimental approach to mathematics, in some cases that means to take as axioms some propositions that haven't been proved just for the sake of finding out what are the possible implications. This reminded me of the guy who defined the Omega number (http://plus.maths.org/issue37/features/omega/index.html). He also proposes to take an experimental approach to mathematics, in some cases that means to take as axioms some propositions that haven’t been proved just for the sake of finding out what are the possible implications.

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